Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geographyRudnytskyi, Stepan
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Ukraine, the land and its people : $b an introduction to its geography
Rudnytskyi, Stepan
Ukraine; Ukrainians
In the Bukowina the Ukrainians, over 300,000 in number (38% of the total population of the land),
inhabit a region of 5000 square kilometers, situated mostly in the mountainous parts
of the country. The Ukrainians inhabit the following districts: Zastavna (80%), Vashkivtzi
(83%), Viznitza (78%), Kitzman (87%), and Chernivtzi (55%), half the District of Sereth
(42%), a third of the District of Storozhinetz (26%), besides parts of the Districts of Kimpolung, Radautz and Suchava. Amid the
Ukrainian population a great many Jews are settled, scattered, and in the cities many
Germans, Roumanians, Armenians and Poles besides. The degree of education and the
economic state of the Bukowina Ukrainians are incomparably better than those of the
Ukrainians of Hungary. From the rural population a numerous educated class has sprung,
which has taken the lead of the masses in the economic and political struggle.
In Galicia (78,500 square kilometers, 8 million inhabitants) the Ukrainians, 3,210,000, that
is 40% of the total population (with 59% of Poles and 1% of Germans) occupy a compact
space of 56,000 square kilometers, in [131]which they comprise 59% of the population. These figures are taken from the census
of the year 1910, which, because of its partisan compilation, is perhaps unique among
the civilized states of Europe. For not only are all the Jews (who speak a German
jargon) listed as Poles, but also all the Ukrainians of Roman-Catholic faith, of whom
there is more than half a million, and 170,000 pure Ukrainians of Greek-Catholic (united)
faith. Basing our calculations, not on these statistics of the vernacular, but on
the statistics of faith, which, too, are not unobjectionable, we obtain the following
results: For the Greek-Catholic Ukrainians 3,380,000 (42%), for the Roman-Catholic
Poles 3,730,000 (47%), and for the Jews 870,000 (11%). According to religious convictions,
then, Ukrainian East Galicia would contain 62% of Ukrainians, over 25% (1,350,000)
Poles, and over 12% (660,000) Jews. As a matter of fact, the number of Ukrainians
in Galicia, according to the investigations of Dr. Okhrimovich, should be raised to
at least 3,500,000, and, adding the Roman-Catholic Ukrainians of East Galicia, the
number is 4,000,000. We shall retain the figure 3,380,000, however, but for the following
view of the districts, the percentages will be taken from the much more justly compiled
census of the year 1900. The greatest percentage of the Ukrainian population, that
is 75–90%, is found in the Carpathian Districts of Turka, Stari Sambir, Kossiv, Pechenizin;
the sub-Carpathian Districts of Bohorodchani, Kalush, Zidachiv; the Pocutian Districts
of Sniatin and Horodenka, besides the District of Yavoriv in the Rostoche. The percentage
of Ukrainians vacillates between 67 and 75% in the Districts of Lisko, Dobromil, Striy,
Dolina, Nadvirna, Tovmach, Salishchiki, Borshchiv, Rohatin, Bibrka, Zovkva and Rava.
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